Presidential candidate Donald Trump claims that Meta CEO Zuckerberg plotted against the Trump campaign in 2020, threatening that if he does it again he will spend the rest of his life in prison.


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Republican candidate Donald Trump, who faces the US presidential election on November 5, 2024, is reported to have said in his book scheduled to be published in September 2024 that 'Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plotted against me in the 2020 election. If he does it again, he will spend the rest of his life in prison.'

Trump claims Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election in soon-to-be released book - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-election-book-00176639

Trump Accuses Mark Zuckerberg of Plotting Against Him in 2020 Election — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/trump-accuses-mark-zuckerberg-of-plotting-against-him-in-2020-election

Trump Threatens to Jail Mark Zuckerberg for Life Over Election: Book
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-threatens-jail-mark-zuckerberg-meta-election-book-1235090792/

According to the news media Politico, Trump's new book 'Save America,' to be released on September 3, 2024, contains a photo of Trump meeting with Zuckerberg at the White House. The photo also includes a caption saying, 'CEO Zuckerberg came to the Oval Office to meet me. He brought his lovely wife to dinner and treated me better than anyone else, but in reality he was plotting to set up a 'vault of shame' in a conspiracy against the president.'


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The 'shameful vault' refers to a $419.5 million donation made by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to the Center for Election Innovation, and Trump claims that Zuckerberg and others tried to manipulate the election results with the donations.

In fact, in an interview with conservative media Fox Business in June 2021, Trump shouted, 'The safe worth $500 million (approximately 53 billion yen at the time) set up by Facebook CEO Zuckerberg contained 96% of Biden's votes! 96%!' The Associated Press fact-checked this claim and concluded that it was 'false,' but Trump continues to make the same claim in 2024.

In his book, Trump said, 'Mark Zuckerberg told me, 'There's no one like you at Facebook,' but at the same time, for some reason, Facebook worked against me.' He added, 'We are watching Mark Zuckerberg closely, and if he does anything illegal this time, he will spend the rest of his life in prison, as will anyone else who cheats in the 2024 presidential election.'


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Trump has also promoted a conspiracy theory that Meta was trying to stop the spread of scandalous articles about Hunter Biden, the second son of President Joe Biden. Regarding this, CEO Zuckerberg himself wrote in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, 'We restricted the spread of the Hunter Biden scandal article because the FBI warned us that it might be a Russian disinformation operation. In retrospect, we should not have done this. We have changed our policies and processes to ensure this never happens again.'



In July 2024, Trump posted a similar message to the one in the book on his conservative social media account, Truth Social, saying, 'If I'm elected, I will pursue election fraudsters like never before and give them long prison sentences. We already know who you are. Don't do it! Zuckerberg, watch out!'

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